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The weather will soon turn cooler and the
leaves will start to fall, and that means the
arrival of football season. Fans are important
to the success of the team because they
cheer for the players and support them even
when they lose.
Coach Harvey Newell said the fans are an
important part of the team.
“Speaking for the players and coaches,
we appreciate the support of our loyal fans
and hope everyone will come to the game and
cheer us,” he said, “on to victory.”
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Leading the fans are the
cheerleaders. “It’s so important for our
team that everyone come to the pep
rallies and the games and scream real
loud and participate in our cheers so that
the players will know we’re behind them
win or lose,” head cheerleader Penny Pell
said.
When asked, students said they
enjoyed going to games and cheering for
the team.
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“It is fun to go to the games and
watch the boys play,” said freshman
Becky Heller.
“Since I’m too uncoordinated to play,
I feel it is my duty as a loyal athletic
supporter to go to all of the games,”
sophomore Buck Sanders said.
So come on out to the games and
join us as we cheer the team on to
another grand and glorious victory,
ya’ll!!
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Elements of News
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Audience
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 Currency
 Impact
 Prominence
 Oddity
 Conflict
 Human
Interest
the elements of News
AUDIENCE
No two are alike. So you will
need to consider the
demographics and
psychographics of your
readers, listeners or viewers
to determine their interests?
the elements of News
TIMELINESS
The most recent aspect of
the event. What can we tell
our readers that they don’t
already know?
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CURRENCY
The latest aspect of an
issue, an update on a
news event. More issue
or analysis oriented.
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PROXIMITY
The story must be close
to your readers in
terms of event, issue
and sources.
the elements of News
IMPACT
The significance or
consequences of an
event. Also the
numbers of people
affected and how
seriously it affects
them.
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PROMINENCE
Names make news.
People in positions of
authority. People who
are closest to the
story.
With crime becoming more and more of a problem, many people
are discussing capital punishment. Some think it’s a reasonable
response to violent crime while others believe the government has
no right to take the lives of others.
Sophomore Joni Garlock says if someone murdered her and
police caught the guy who did it, she’d want him to die for his crime.
“I think it’d make my parents feel better,” said Joni. “They
wouldn’t like the idea of the person who killed me getting away with
it.”
Some see capital punishment as a way for states to save money.
“If they’re dead, they ain’t eating,” junior Bill Bishop stated. “And
food is expensive. I say kill them as fast as possible.”
But others claim killing is wrong all the time.
“Just because a person kills you doesn’t mean that person
should be killed,” sophomore Amy Duncan said. “Capital punishment
is wrong and should be ended before an innocent person is put to
death.”
Junior Zach Forrest said he could care less.
“I don’t know nobody on death row so what do I care?” Zach
said. “Give me a call after I murder someone.”
the elements of News
ODDITY
The interruption in the
everyday chain of events.
the elements of News
CONFLICT
The clash of opinions,
attitudes, values as well
as the struggle to survive
the pressures of daily
life. Sometimes, conflict
can be a break in the
normal routine of life.
the elements of News
HUMAN INTEREST
Stories that arouse an
emotion in the reader,
that affect the reader’s
emotions and sensibilities
in some way.
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 Daily
newspapers
 News magazines
 Teen magazines
 Education journals
 Television
 Internet
 Open
your eyes and ears
The first game he attended, the
players wore leather helmets and played
in an old cow pasture. Sixty-three years
and hundreds of games later, Don
Simpson is gearing up for another
football season.
“I ain’t missed but one game since
1938, and that’s hard for some people to
imagine, but I’ve been healthy and in
town, so I never saw a reason not to go,”
said Simpson, a retired engineer whose
three sons played for the Bulldogs back
in the 1960s. His youngest son, Heath,
quarterbacked the 1968 Bulldogs to
their only state football championship.
“I saw my first game when I was 7 years old and from that
moment on, Bulldog football was my passion,” Simpson said. “I
played for four years here — four of the worst teams in the school’s
history, I might add — and then went to school over at Fairview so
that I’d be close enough to home to go to all the games.”
Every game except one.
“My senior year in college, I was married and my wife was
expecting our first child,” he said. “She was getting real close to
delivering, so I decided it would be best if I stayed home rather than
going to the game. Good thing too. My son was born at 2:30 that
morning, and we lost the game anyway. I’m just glad that the one
game I missed was a loss rather than a win. I’d hate to think that I
missed a game that we won.”
Simpson served 16 years on the school board and was
president of the Football Booster Club for eight years.
“I don’t miss all of that a bit,” he said. “But when I get
tired of going to games is when they’ll need to plant me six
feet under. I may be just another old fool, but I love them
Bulldogs.”